A.R. Von Quotes
Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.
Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.
Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.
I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.
I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.
The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.
Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.
As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.
Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.
The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.
If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.
In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?
The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.
Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.
In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.
I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.
Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley.
The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.
Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.
